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China Daily | Updated: 2009-04-02 07:50
US WWII shipwreck found
The wreck of the first American ship sunk during World War II has been located off Australia's southern coast, ocean researchers said yesterday.
The freighter MS City of Rayville, carrying a cargo of lead, wool and copper from South Australia to New York, hit a German mine and was lost on November 8, 1940, a year before the United States entered the war.
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